Memecoins Are Stress-Testing The Future Of Tokenized Stocks | Weekly Roundup

Watch on YouTube ↗  |  September 11, 2026 at 10:00  |  43:58  |  Empire
Speakers
Santiago R. Santos — Co-Host, Empire / Founder, Inversion Capital
Jason Yanowitz — Co-Founder, Blockworks

Summary

Jason Yanowitz and Santiago R. Santos discuss the explosive intersection of memecoins and tokenized stocks on platforms like Robinhood. They explore how speculative frenzy around assets like $BONER and tokenized $HIMS is stress-testing market infrastructure and potentially paving the way for 24/7 equities trading. The hosts also share their personal portfolio allocations and bullish outlooks for the current crypto cycle.

  • Memecoins paired with tokenized equities are creating unique arbitrage and squeeze dynamics on decentralized exchanges.
  • Robinhood is emerging as a major player in the tokenized stock space, drawing significant retail attention and volume.
  • The hosts debate the legal and structural implications of onchain equities, including murky shareholder rights and pushback from public company CEOs.
  • Jason Yanowitz outlines his concentrated crypto portfolio, heavily favoring Bitcoin, Solana, and Hyperliquid.
  • Santiago R. Santos argues that going long Robinhood and Arbitrum is the cleanest way to play the tokenization cycle while avoiding Ethereum's high fees.
  • The growing dominance of USDC among DeFi developers suggests Circle is positioned to win the stablecoin oligopoly.
Ideas
Jason Yanowitz Co-Founder, Blockworks 4:42
Crypto is entering a new bull market.
Maintains a highly concentrated portfolio of five tokens—Bitcoin, Solana, Hyperliquid (HYPE), Zcash, and Morpho—with Bitcoin as the largest holding, followed by Solana and Hyperliquid, which have seen significant recent upside.
Santiago R. Santos Co-Host, Empire / Founder, Inversion Capital 33:54
Buy Robinhood and Arbitrum instead of Ethereum.
The cleanest way to play the current cycle and the growth of tokenization is to go long Robinhood and Arbitrum rather than Ethereum. Ethereum's $300 billion market cap and high fees make it unattractive, whereas Arbitrum generates significant fees by supporting the highly active Robinhood chain.
Santiago R. Santos Co-Host, Empire / Founder, Inversion Capital 33:54
Buy Robinhood and Arbitrum instead of Ethereum.
The cleanest way to play the current cycle and the growth of tokenization is to go long Robinhood and Arbitrum rather than Ethereum. Ethereum's $300 billion market cap and high fees make it unattractive, whereas Arbitrum generates significant fees by supporting the highly active Robinhood chain.
Jason Yanowitz Co-Founder, Blockworks 36:12
Concentrated portfolio favors Bitcoin, Solana, and Hyperliquid.
Solana is technologically years ahead of competing blockchains (excluding Ethereum in certain aspects like decentralization) and is uniquely prepared to handle high-volume retail activity, setting it up for a phenomenal multi-year run.
Jason Yanowitz Co-Founder, Blockworks 37:34
Long Coinbase and Robinhood for crypto infrastructure.
Long both Robinhood and Coinbase as they are key infrastructure platforms positioned to benefit heavily from the current surge in retail crypto activity and the growing trend of onchain equities.
Jason Yanowitz Co-Founder, Blockworks 39:35
Circle dominates due to USDC network effects.
Circle is positioned to perform incredibly well because USDC has established insurmountable network effects among DeFi developers, making competing stablecoins virtually worthless for new protocol integrations.
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This Empire video, published September 11, 2026, features Jason Yanowitz, Santiago R. Santos discussing BTC, HYPE, ZEC, MORPHO, ARB, HOOD, ETH, SOL, COIN, CRCL. 6 trade ideas extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.

Speakers: Jason Yanowitz, Santiago R. Santos  · Tickers: BTC, HYPE, ZEC, MORPHO, ARB, HOOD, ETH, SOL, COIN, CRCL